Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival) (2011)
Abbado's Spiritual Mahler
Genre : Music
Runtime : 1H 35M
Director : Michael Beyer
Synopsis
Claudio Abbado and his hand-picked players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra take their acclaimed Mahler cycle to a new level with this audiovisual recording of the most complex and compelling of the symphonies, the intense, searching Ninth. Abbado brings all his renowned clarity of vision and the experience of a lifetime to this contradictory music half valedictory, half life-affirming and his orchestra of soloists, including some of the leading instrumentalists of our time, revels in the transparent textures and virtuosity of Mahlers last completed symphony.
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